Basic Android features
• Many webOS patches are already built into Android or are apps.
• Speech to Text - say a message or email instead of typing it.
• Widgets let you customize your home screen
• Voice Search is much like like universal search but by voice

This is one that struck closest to me, because until I got my pre+ just recently, the Capitvate (Galaxy) was the phone I'd been wanting.

Honestly, at the time it came down more to the difference in price at the moment. I needed a phone and couldn't justify spending $200 at the time (and yes I know that's minimal compared to the life of the contract, but still). My phone died and I needed something then.

Honestly, if not for the circumstance, I probably would have never picked up the pre, and only then it was almost by accident looking at alternative in a radio shack. I did a quick read up on it and was intrigued, then decided to try it out given the 30 day return policy and was hooked (for the record, not 30 days yet, but not planning on going back).

If you look at the specs sheet of the hardware on paper, its no comparison. The only thing the pre has going for it at all is webos. Your average person isn't going to have a clue why that matters. None of the store vendors were pushing it at all, and indeed shortly thereafter all the radio shacks who didn't have them started saying that it was a dead platform, all recalled, no one making them, etc etc.

On a side note I'd say anyone considering android on AT&T has pretty much no other informed choice as long as the size isn't a killer (and it might be for some). The Aria is.. okay I guess, the Backflip is a joke. Even the Captivate they couldn't release in 2.2, for the sake of HTC's UI customizations i guess.

FWIW I didn't see any physical micro hdmi out port on the captivate.

One of the things that held me off when I almost got it, budget be damned was that I knew I was staying w/ AT&T I (I have four phones on my plan for family) and it irked me that the Verizon version seemed to be getting a much better deal ($50 less, plus throwing in more stuff).

I think I'm through spending for top of the line smartphones when they come out. Did that 3 times in the past 5-6 years already. Which means pre2 or whatever probably not gonna get it until its discounted some years from now. I know the pre (or pre+) price point wasn't supposed to be down where its at now by design, but I don't care, think its a great value at its current price.

I've played with this phone quite a bit myself because i wanted to get a feel of the UI incase i wanted an Epic and I was pretty impressed. The UI isn't all that great and borderline "cartoony" and the screen while eye popping...is woefully inaccurate with pictures. But that prob. won't matter much since its a phone and not some device you are doing photoshop on.